“If you work it out, there are 12 people involved in a match but the franchises held onto the five next-best players as well, so it ended up taking over a hundred players out of the system before selecting a seventh team.

“Hence, they didn’t do all that well and we felt it didn’t help us.”

An independent committee will be appointed to investigate the benefits of a 12- team domestic T20 competition for the future.

“It’s very early stages and a lot of formats are being debated,” Faul said.

“Should there be a top tier/bottom tier? Should all of them play in one T20 competition? The committee will have to investigate it - not just strength versus strength but also the commercial effect of such a decision.

“It can get very emotional and it’s only fair to review it and see where we can go with this. But for this season it will be unchanged.” – Sapa

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